A leading Financial Institution is looking to add to their Trading capabilities and is seeking to hire an mid-level Securities Finance Trader in Zurich. The role offers a huge opportunity for an ambitious person with exciting ideas who looking grow within a successful team and manage a client flow trading book.
Your tasks & responsibilities
- Trading Equity and Fixed Income securities finance and repo as well as Collateral upgrade/down grade trades, TRS and single stock futures
- Funding and financing longs to raise liquidity
- Building and managing strong relationships and network with securities finance counterparts globally
- Daily book management and refinancing as well as managing daily risk exposures and credit risk
- Working with projects teams on regulatory implementation such as SFTR and platform development
- Building strong working relationships with internal stakeholders such as operations teams in order to improve desk operational effectiveness
- Analyse financial statements such as the daily pnl, escalate and review breaks as well as reporting
Requirements
- At least 4+ years of relevant work experience is required, preferably in Securities Lending or Capital Markets
- Strong analytical skills and at the same time demonstrating clear and structured thought processes
- Creative thinker and comfortable taking initiative in pursuing new trading opportunities
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment, and to identify revenue/process improvement opportunities and provide solutions
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written in English, further languages such as French and German are an advantage
